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by strictfp 14y ago
Coming from a Perl and C++ background, Java was great because the designers dared to remove so many features from the language. In that sense, it made the efforts of the coders stand out more than the features of the language. This is an im
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by strictfp 14y ago
This phenomenon has always existed, and is more famously known as the 'PLZ SEND TEH CODEZ' phenomenon. What happens is that rookie coders get in way over their heads and are unlikely to finish their tasks regardless of the amount of support
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by strictfp 14y ago
Have the same experience with reFIT. Just unnecessary. What you can do instead is to just install Linux normally with GRUB, and then access it through the Windows boot function built into the mac. Hold command during boot and choose windows
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by strictfp 14y ago
I'm just a casual user, and I didn't really notice any difference between deb and rpm. But I did notice a significant difference between apt and yum. Yum was much slower and less clever in figuring out dependencies. I've had yum uninstall u
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by strictfp 14y ago
This can be solved by using a transactional messaging system. The message will then only enter the queue when all datasources have committed. This also has the additional benefit that a tx rollback after the entity save will cancel the mess
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Windows 7 Gadgets Removed from Microsoft.com(windows.microsoft.com)
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by strictfp 14y ago
Nice app. But I suspect that this will draw more attention to the possibility of using YouTube as a music service and therefore increase the risk of these videos taken off YouTube.
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by strictfp 14y ago
If they would remove all the redundant information it would be a lot better.
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by strictfp 14y ago
The first animated gif delivers unprecedented comical value.
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by strictfp 14y ago
+1 for the moral high horse. Everytime something gets hacked the hacker community blames the victim for using less-than-optimal security. Well guess what? There is no foolproof system. The same reactions are seen when sites go down. 'Oh, bu
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by strictfp 14y ago
But all programs must make exceptions for these entries. Imagine trying to add a third magic filename, '...', for the grandparent for example. You would have a lot of coding to do. Not really possible. It would have been better to mark the
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by strictfp 14y ago
It didn't use to work. I think it was added for XP SP2 or so, probably due to the popularity of manu *nix ports like Emacs.
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by strictfp 14y ago
Why not use ETag instead?
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by strictfp 14y ago
We've had the same pronoun situation here in Sweden. Recently, however, a new pronoun started to become common in everyday speech: 'hen'. It's a mix of 'han' ('he') and 'hon'('her'). It's picked up in popularity fast since it solves the sp
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by strictfp 14y ago
As one commenter already said: the best way of avoiding blaim is to not make any major modifications or write difficult code. This way you avoid creating bugs. So there is a huge risk that this will reduce productivity. A root cause analysi
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by strictfp 14y ago
Wow. Complete cognitive dissonance between us :) I was reasoning about the plant as a biological device which has adapted to life according to Darwin's theory of evolution. Since gravity, as you point out, is quite constant on earth, one co
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by strictfp 14y ago
I'm surprised that the plant was robust in space. It could just as well have stopped growing at all. Makes you wonder if there are any low gravity growth places on earth. If not, where has the plant learned this skill?
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by strictfp 14y ago
Another very interesting question closed as off-topic.
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by strictfp 14y ago
Stop doing automagical conversions and all these problems will go away.
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by strictfp 14y ago
True. Just find it odd that this gets posted on the official blog. Interesting indeed, but a bit careless.
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by strictfp 14y ago
What about measuring number of upvotes on questions closed as not constructive /not about programming? I get the feeling that the technical questions are getting saturated, and that the community moved towards more soft issues (management,
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by strictfp 14y ago
Alternative title: Amateur virus analyst does not take necessary precautions, gets pwned by virus author.
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by strictfp 14y ago
Maybe, but if they allow for usb sticks all that is undone. Sneakernet is hard to firewall.
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by strictfp 14y ago
> Do you want the terrorists to win? The terrorists have won if we give up our freedoms in fear of them. That is their whole tactic.
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by strictfp 14y ago
I thought that it was written to prove that the supposedly declarative data format of xml still is vulnerable to imperative misuse. :)
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by strictfp 14y ago
Fill out a petition? :)
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by strictfp 14y ago
Can we go together and convince the stubborn Cygwin-devs to PLEASE integrate this into mainline? I've tried a couple of times to convince them that we need something like apt-cyg, and lots of people keep trying, but they just won't budge. S
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by strictfp 14y ago
That is the point he is trying to make. A point _can be seen_ as a zero-length line, but this is really on the boundary of the definition of a line. Likewise a zero-length swipe is a tap, but that is really stretching the definition of a sw
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by strictfp 14y ago
A hoodie? In my book that is _very_ casual. I would only wear one on a fishing trip or some other private activity where the risk of bumping into work associates is minimal. A cardigan would seem like a better common denominator between dr
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by strictfp 14y ago
How safe is it? If everyone started using this, couldn't password crackers adapt? In the recent LinkedIn leak for example, instead of looking for sha1('password'), they could just look for sha1(PwdHash('password'))? Or am I misinterpreting

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